Thaddeus and Balthazar

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My lovely possibly boy matching twins.

Yes????

@Panicmode1
"Do you like this name? No it's bloody awful"
Is entirely different to a geoup of women sitting together bitching about what the kids in their child class are called / the neighbours have named the new infant etc.

@Nesssie wellid hardly write a thread and hope everyone would ignore it, I'm not sure I understand your point. And yes I thought I'd get some mixed reactions, but haha I have lunch with my friends and we'd bitch about a child like yours, or comparing it to child abuse and saying it would ruin a child's entire life is a litttle otr

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'have you heard what x has called their new baby?'. "Balthazar". "Really?poor child They do have, erm, rather outlandish taste". Said with an eye roll and everyone moved on. I think that was it. Not that much different really.

@Alarae ballzy 😂

A no from me. If you wanted something biblical, Melchior is nice & slightly easier to spell. Maybe Melchior & Joseph?

I love these names. Dh vetoed Balthazar but Thaddeus is on the short list if we ever have another boy.
We called ds Hector.

My friend has a Thaddeus. I was a bit 🤔 at first but love it now because I love him. Balthazar is way too much imho.

@Bunnylady53 I haven't, believe it or not, deliberately picked biblical names, I just happen to like a lot of them alot

That's cute @Tillygetsit

Both ridiculous and pretentious in my view but that's just my view. Nobody has to listen to me but you did ask.

That's fine Madcat, I ddo understand that some people don't like them or don't think they're proper names for babies. But I just don't get the accusation of pretentious across any of these threads. What exactly are we supposed to be pretending, who are we supposed to be impressing? It's not like I'm gonna get him into Private school based on his name, it's not like if I'm hollering Balthazar across the local park anyone is going to think I'm slumming it from somewhere posh down south. I just fail see how any name pretentious

@Kanga83 Thaddeus and Bartholomew Sholto are twins in the Sherlock Holmes novella The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

I actually think Thaddeus is awesome and quite usable. I’ve only ever come across one but at the very least it has good nicknames. It’s very much in keeping with names like Rufus, Markus, Atticus, Linus etc which are a bit of a micro trend.

Balthazar is amazing but super, super posh and very few people could pull it off.

I think I'm going to call my next cats Thaddeus and Bartholomew after the Sholto twins. Or Sherlock and mycroft.

I love the names OP. Go for it.